AVATARs & USERNAMES - What are they&do they mean?

Unless CLASSIFIED, tell us what they mean. My avatar is of MARIAH, almost 7 1/2 yrs. old and as frisky as a kitten. She is President & Chief Operating Officer of the BLUE VALLEY SHORT LINE RR. My username is Stojiny, just a name and as far as I know means nothing.

My avitar represents my home for about 19 years and was the reason I began modeling Z in the first place. See Photo Archieve for the Original CCRR. Socalz44 should be self explanitory. 44 is my birth year, Socal is where I live, and Z is my scale of choice. Cheers, Jim CCRR:)

Well Rowan, that's my name; and the starship is from Startrek. Love science fiction.

My user name is the same as a Hotmail account I used to have. When I joined this group and was asked for a user name I had a mental blank - couldn't think of a thing! Hence I used the name I have now. My avatar is meant to illustrate the very small size of Z scale, but it could be sub-titled "How Eve really tempted Adam".

Gary, I like that explanation! Cheers, Jim CCRR:)

Just the name I started using 12 years ago when playing lan games during lunch break. I can be bothered about avatars, they have no meaning or attraction to me. So don't wait for me to change it.

well, I think my avatar and nick aren't that cryptic. The nick is just from my real name:

U from Uwe
Lie from Liermann

and the avatar shows me on our tour home from our summer vacation in Switzerland. If you look very close you can see the logo of the Glacier Express over my left shoulder...

My user name is the first three letters of my last name (cra) the Z of course for our scale, put together they kind of describe me craZ (crazy). The 13 is my birthday and my lucky number.

My avatar is a photo of a custom Z scale engine offered on that big auction site. I couldn't bear to part with the amount of money the seller was asking so I asked them if I could use the photo for my avatar and they said okay.

Mine makes no sense to anyone except for me. When I first began to use Ebay, I chose for my handle my favorite color and at the time I was looking for airplane models and 4 is my favorite number, so I came up with tealplanes4me. Very selfish, huh, but it worked for me.

Has nothing to do with the picture of me standing on the nose of a Geep from CORP.
Maybe I'll change pictures someday..
Loren

My username is my favorite railroad also. Having spent the better part of 31 years living in the great state of Alaska, and loving trains, I quickly fell in love with the railroad. For 8 years my view at work was of the Anchorage depot, the Cook inlet behind it, then Mt. McKinley way in the background. I also had a great view of the aircraft going in and out of Elmendorf AFB as the flight path on approach was behind the depot.
My avatar is a photo of me in front of an ARR GP40 (non moving-whew!) by the depot in my later hometown of Palmer. Love those blue and gold ARR colors!

Karin

My user name is the moniker I was given at a very young age.
The Avatar is DRIBBLES-- The Dastardly Catasaurus Wrecks playing with trains
Fred

Well, mine are self explanatory; Dampflok is German for steam loco and my avatar is an early one, modelled by Railex. The prototype is a Bavarian C II (C* n2 3T9.25) which had a maximum speed was 45km/h and was in service from 1861 to 1916. This particular one is #362, "Vils".

All the best,
Chris.

* This is the UIC equivalent to Whyte notation 0-6-0. 'n2' indicates 2-cylinder wet steam, and '3T9.25' is a 3 axle tender with a water capacity of 9.25 cubic metres.

Thanks Chris, you answered a question I posed to my son, a 2nd year German class student. I wondered what Dampflok meant and as smart as he is he could not figure it out. Guess they haven't gotten to "steam loco" in their conversational German yet!

What a cool thread!

My User Name is the first letter of my first name + the first 4 letters of my last name.

My avatar is a picture of me and my son in Western Pacific's #26 (CONSOLIDATION)built in 1909 located at Travel Town Museum in LA. The photo was taken late 2005.

Hello Karin,
alaska-rr wrote:

my son, a 2nd year German class student [...] could not figure it out. Guess they haven't gotten to "steam loco" in their conversational German yet!

And they probably won't anyway because except the teacher is a fan of trains they won't talk about steam locos. But maybe you could urge them to do, and thus get some more young ones interessted in our hobby.

And then in a schoolbook they would use the full word:

Dampflokomotive = steam locomotive

@Brad:

I too love this thread, since I also wondered about some of the usernames. Most I could somehow connect with the people behind, but some I couldn't figure out like tealplanes and Havoc. I my case the name came up while being at the army in communications. We had to sign a logbook at teletyping with a short acronym. Usually it were the first two or three letters of the last name, but since for me those (Lie) already were taken by a sergeant, and me at that time only being a private E1, I added the first letter of my christian name to it.

Uwe, if and WHEN I come to visit Germany I very much want to meet you and your wife Karin. Only thing is I do not speak any German! But I think you can speak good English, enough to talk trains, my friend! Will be a fun day when it happens.

the other Karin

Hello Karin,
alaska-rr wrote:

Uwe, if and WHEN I come to visit Germany I very much want to meet you and your wife Karin. Only thing is I do not speak any German! But I think you can speak good English, enough to talk trains, my friend! Will be a fun day when it happens.

...you don't speak German...
...hmmm, even the small kids speak German over here...

SCNR to use this old joke from my dad...

I just hope you bring Loren too, and then we all will have a great day in Hamburg... but probably not at the Reeperbahn but in the MiWuLa .

TheWag was a nick name I used when was first introduced to internet 14 years ago and had to use the Youngstown, OH Freenet to get an email account. Course, I was in Georgia going to college at the time. The is just The. Wag for Wagner.

The Avatar is me. I work in a neuroscience lab programming computer for Dr's and wannabes. One of the "perks" is the occasion need for a guinea pig. Now if I could get creative enough and place a nice NS SD70 in there...you'd have it: Trains on the brain!

I wish my kids could speak English!!
I was lazy so my name is..my name. Avatar was taken at nice RR museum at Neustadt on what the Germans call the "Wine Street" in the Pfaltz.
Now for kids to read something in German that has something to do with trains, you might want to look up somebody named Jim Knopf and his pal Lukas... of course its kind of a magic train.. Now if you want to learn to speak Barvarian, there is a famous railroad baggage handler from Munich, but if you speak German like he does, you will either get extra credit or thrown out of class,depending on the teacher.
Uwe! A commo guy! Pretty cool as I can almost talk on a radio with the Bundeswehr still..
" Loewe, hier Tiger, Kommen."

Hello Kelley,
Kelley wrote:

Now for kids to read something in German that has something to do with trains, you might want to look up somebody named Jim Knopf and his pal Lukas... of course its kind of a magic train.

...talking about Jim Knopf we should better give a few hints about Lummerland . It is a theme for a small layout that already was tried:

how to get a trackplan for Lummerland

There is even a Brio version and a H0e version .

And for not forgeting our scale, Peter Kahl from our group in Hamburg created Emma on a Z engine (Scroll down to the third picture). Not in picture is the station building Peter created later for Lummerland. It also showed the track plan that is shown in the video play mentioned in the Wikipedia article.

Uwe! A commo guy! Pretty cool as I can almost talk on a radio with the Bundeswehr still..
" Loewe, hier Tiger, Kommen."

I wasn't in wireless, but in teleprinting so for me it was:

rgfbpfc de rgfrac
int zbz k